. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. xion of the Lord TreasurerCecil, and was educated at Corpus Christi Col-lege, Cambridge—gave great offence to theChurch about 1580 by maintaining that herdiscipline was Popish and Antichristian, andher ministers not rightly ordained. The sectwas subsequently known by the name of Inde-pendents. (See Neals History of the Puri-tans.) 25 Scene II.—Big enough for the bed of Warein have given a representation of this famous bed, which is more interesting than any descrip-tion. -^ Scene II.—He does smile his face intomor
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. xion of the Lord TreasurerCecil, and was educated at Corpus Christi Col-lege, Cambridge—gave great offence to theChurch about 1580 by maintaining that herdiscipline was Popish and Antichristian, andher ministers not rightly ordained. The sectwas subsequently known by the name of Inde-pendents. (See Neals History of the Puri-tans.) 25 Scene II.—Big enough for the bed of Warein have given a representation of this famous bed, which is more interesting than any descrip-tion. -^ Scene II.—He does smile his face intomore lines than are in the new map withthe augmentation of the , who paid no attention to geo-graphy, according to the commentators, heredescribes a new map —an accession to the geo-graphy of his day. This map is found in Lin-schotens Yoyages, 1598; and we have engraveda portion of it,—about a fourth part of the ori-ginal—exhibiting the islands of Malacca andBorneo, to show how accurately the careless poet has described its peculiarities. ;. Scene IV.— We II have him in a dark-room,,and bound. Chains and darkness were the universal pre-scriptions for lunatics in the time of was a third remedy, to which Rosalindalludes in * As You Like It:— Love is a mad-ness, and deserves as well a dark house and avihijJ as madmen do. ^^ Scene IV.— He is knight, dubbed with un-hatched rapier, and on carpet consideration. The knights of peace—mayors, and justices,and serjeants-at-law, and physicians—grave menwho hate a hatched rapier, which has seen ser-vice, as bitterly as King James, are called carpetknights, according to Eandle Holme :— If itbe the kings pleasure to knight any such per- COMEDIES.—VOL. II. 338 ILLUSTRATIONS. sons, seeing they are not knighted as soldiers,they are not therefore to use the horse-mans title or spurs: they are only termedsimply miles and milites, knights of the carpet,or knights of the green cloth, to distingu
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